Baz Ashmawy has revealed he searched high and low in “bingo halls and community centres” to recruit new mammies for his hit series 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy.

The Dublin star and his 74-year-old mother Nancy are set to return to our screens next week with the third season of the Emmy award winning travel show - along with four new mammies.

Joining the mother-son pair this time around are Grace, 73, from Scotland, Singapore native Rosaline, 65, Londoner Ann, 77, and Jamaican born Joy, 73.

Baz told the Irish Mirror: “We went to different places to find them. We couldn’t go through casting agents so we went to community centres, bingo halls - places you’d find people my mum’s age loitering around.

“We’d approach them or go out to meet them, I might chat to them face to face or over Skype.

“We had an amazing response and from that we just picked our favourites.

“We didn’t want mammies who wanted to be on TV, we wanted real people and that’s the great thing about the ladies. They pop on camera - it’s the same as Nancy’s appeal.”

Baz Ashmawy at the exclusive launch of the Heineken Star Series (Photo: Anthony Woods)

While filming the show, new addition Ann was filmed abseiling in Peru and stealing a Lamborghini along with other terrifying stunts.

“I was terrified but I loved it. Baz was so nice and there was no pressure about doing anything - I think if there was more pressure I would have been less likely to do everything,” she said.

The 77-year-old added that her late husband Lesley - who passed away last year - would never believe what she has done on the show.

“He would have said ‘You’re absolutely off your head’,” she said.

Speaking about how she was recruited for the show, Ann added: “Nobody encouraged me. A friend of my daughters told me something about a free holiday and I thought great

“I rang up innocently, I didn’t have a clue, and when they told me I said ‘No way’

“A day later they came and met me. I didn’t think anything of it.

“A few days after they told me Sky liked me and wanted me to come along. I have no regrets.”

Meanwhile 73-year-old Joy explained that her son Michael encouraged her to take part.

“I’ve had people tell me I’m brave, mad, crazy and that they’ve always wanted to do the things I have,” she said.

“My son Michael was the one who was telling me to do it.

“He had seen what Baz done before and didn’t show me any of it. He told me to just do it.

“It was so exciting. If what we have done makes other people feel the way I felt while they’re watching then I’d love that.”

50 Ways to Kill Your Mammies will air on Sky 1 from Monday 26th September at 9pm